Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, P,O,Box 1094 Blindern, NO-0317 Oslo, Norway.
Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health. 2011 Apr 17;5:12. doi: 10.1186/1753-2000-5-12.
On 26 April 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant suffered an accident. Several areas of central Norway were heavily affected by far field radioactive fallout. The present study focuses on the psychological well-being of adolescents who were exposed to this radiation as fetuses.
The adolescents (n = 53) and their mothers reported their perceptions of the adolescents' current psychological health as measured by the Youth Self Report and Child Behaviour Checklist.
In spite of previous reports of subtle cognitive deficits in these exposed adolescents, there were few self-reported problems and fewer problems reported by the mothers. This contrasts with findings of studies of children from the former Soviet Union exposed in utero, in which objective measures are inconsistent, and self-reports, especially by mothers, express concern for adolescents' cognitive functioning and psychological well-being.
In the current paper, we explore possible explanations for this discrepancy and suggest that protective factors in Norway, in addition to perceived physical and psychological distance from the disaster, made the mothers less vulnerable to Chernobyl-related anxiety, thus preventing a negative effect on the psychological health of both mother and child.
1986 年 4 月 26 日，切尔诺贝利核电站发生事故。挪威中部的几个地区受到了远场放射性沉降物的严重影响。本研究关注的是作为胎儿暴露于这种辐射的青少年的心理健康。
青少年（n=53）及其母亲报告了他们对青少年当前心理健康的看法，这些看法是通过青少年自我报告和儿童行为检查表来衡量的。
尽管先前有报道称这些暴露的青少年存在轻微的认知缺陷，但自我报告的问题很少，母亲报告的问题更少。这与前苏联宫内暴露的儿童研究结果形成对比，在前苏联的研究中，客观测量结果不一致，自我报告，尤其是母亲的自我报告，对青少年的认知功能和心理健康表示关注。
在当前的论文中，我们探讨了这种差异的可能解释，并提出了在挪威，除了身体和心理上与灾难的距离之外，还有保护因素，这使得母亲对切尔诺贝利相关的焦虑不太敏感，从而防止了对母亲和孩子的心理健康产生负面影响。
